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Terror Attack in Chicago? Illegal Immigrant Charged for Shooting Jewish Man

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From the Center for Immigration Studies

By Todd Bensman 

The New York Post and Fox News are reporting that Abdallahi crossed the U.S. Southwest border in March 2023, that San Diego-area Border Patrol under Washington, D.C., orders waved him in just like millions of other strangers, and that he should never have been in the country to shoot at Americans in the first place.

In a shooting that bears the hallmarks of a terror attack, 22-year-old Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi of Mauritania stands charged with opening fire on an identifiably orthodox Jewish man walking to synagogue in Chicago, severely wounding him while shouting “Allahu Akbar!” before engaging police in an extended gun-battle that landed the West African in a hospital facing a long prison term. The victim survived the attack.

For days afterward, a downplaying Chicago media could not bring itself to report Abdallahi’s immigration status as the national presidential election campaign debate was reaching its fevered apogee, centered on the public safety consequences of the historic mass migration border crisis in flooded American cities like Chicago.

But now, the New York Post and Fox News are reporting that Abdallahi crossed the U.S. Southwest border in March 2023, that San Diego-area Border Patrol under Washington, D.C., orders waved him in just like millions of other strangers, and that he should never have been in the country to shoot at Americans in the first place.

Jewish leaders in Chicago expressed outrage that Cook County’s progressive George Soros-backed State‘s Attorney Kim Foxx (who leaves office next year) has not charged Abdallahi yet with a state hate crime, albeit police had not been able to interview the alleged shooter as of this week — and determine a chargeable motive — because of his wounds.

But Chicago’s Jewish community, U.S. lawmakers with national security oversight authorities, the Donald Trump and Kamala Harris campaigns, and all the national media could be asking far more consequential questions that are essential to serve broader U.S. national interests.

Far More Important Questions

While it may be too early to determine whether this qualifies as an act of terrorism in violation of federal terrorism laws, is the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force even investigating the prospect that co-conspirators are still out there plotting next moves, that foreign actors back in Mauritania directed Abdallahi, and if federal terrorism charges are in the offing?

Local hate crime charges aside for just a minute, is President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice investigating anything at all about Abdallahi’s alleged shooting attack?

If the answer to these questions is a universal “no”, and the FBI is not all over one or more of these issues, lawmakers and the media are obliged to demand an answer from FBI Director Christopher Wray to this question: Why not?

If the answer is “yes”, then, whew — and great. But that’s just for starters.

National Security Vetting Failure and Just Pure Luck at the Land Borders

Congress, reporters, Jewish communities, and all Americans deserve to know exactly how the Border Patrol handled Abdallahi after his March 2023 illegal entry into California, starting with a timeline of how and when agents ran his name and biometrics through national security databases. These are questions for President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as for DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas or the leaders of the U.S. Border Patrol.

A group of U.S.-bound Mauritanians in Costa Rica. June 2021 photo by Todd Bensman.

Reportedly, Abdallahi did not hit on any terrorism or criminal databases when Border Patrol detained him in San Diego Sector.

But was he ever detained and referred to the Border Patrol’s Tactical Terrorism Response Team or ICE intelligence officers for extended terrorism-related interviews? That’s what is supposed to happen with “special interest aliens”, who get assigned that tag if they hail from designated countries of terrorism concern like Mauritania. It’s doubtful that any interview was conducted, given the historic volumes of special interest aliens coming in from around the world during the Biden border crisis, Mauritanians among them in historically high volumes.

We must ask because high risk is suggested by Border Patrol encounters with a national record-breaking 400 border-crossers who hit on the FBI’s terrorism watch list in the more than three years of the Biden mass migration crisis, and that, while it’s good they were noticed and caught, far too many got accidentally released into America during the crush of humanity the administration’s policies caused.

One was an illegal border crosser from Senegal, in Abdallahi’s terrorist-inhabited neck of the woods, arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs in New York on a warrant from back home for “terroristic activities”.

According to material obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies through a Freedom of Information Act request, Border Patrol apprehended 18,260 Mauritanians illegally crossing the southern border from 2021 through December 2023.

ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Murabitoun, and other violent Islamic extremist groups operate throughout the Sahel region of northwest Africa, which includes Mauritania, according to many credible sources about international terrorism. In May 2023, four jihadists convicted of terrorism crimes escaped  during a deadly prison break there.

Any abdication from past duty to conduct face-to-face interviews with Mauritanians occurs as the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. intelligence community began publicly warning, in both the 2024 and 2025 public Homeland Threat Assessments, of a heightened threat of border-crossing terrorism.

“Individuals with terrorism connections are interested in using established travel routes and perceived permissive environments to facilitate their access to the United States,” the DHS assessment for 2025, released on October 2, re-states. “Over the next year, we expect some individuals with terrorism ties … will continue their efforts to exploit migration flows and the complex border security environment to enter the United States.”

The First American Whose Luck Ran Out?

Americans have gotten lucky so far.

We know that earlier this year, the FBI rolled up eight Tajikistani border-crossers in a vast, multi-state counter-terrorism wiretap investigation that featured bomb-making talk but was pushed out of the news by choices to deport them rather than charge them with terrorism crimes that would have led to very public — and politically damaging to Democrats — court proceedings during the presidential campaign featuring criticism of the border crisis. In September, Canadian and U.S. counterterrorism agencies intercepted a Pakistani immigrant let into Canada as he attempted to cross south into New York with co-conspirators planning to massacre Jews at synagogue during the 2024 High Holy Days services.

In June 2024, a federal court prosecution in Sacramento convicted a Russian national from the Caucuses region of terrorism charges a few years after his illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossing. Mura Kurashev sent money to terrorists in Syria to buy battle motorcycles and guns, but the investigating FBI agent said he’d probably have conducted an attack inside the United States himself had he not been arrested in 2021.

In February 2024, the DOJ convicted an Iraqi asylum seeker of plotting to bring in over the southern border a team of assassins to murder former President George W. Bush.

This case in Chicago presents a special occasion that demands action from U.S. bastions of government accountability in national security matters who should get to work with this last question in mind:

Is the Jewish Chicago victim the first American whose luck finally ran out?

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Texas offers land for use for Trump deportations

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The Rio Grande River in Starr County, Texas. 

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Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham offered state property the GLO acquired last month in Starr County. Next week, the state breaks ground building a new section of Texas’ border wall on the property. Buckingham is offering part of the land to be used for Trump’s deportation plan, more than 1,400 acres, to construct deportation facilities and staging areas.

Texas is offering state land to be used for President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan.

Trump has said he plans to declare a national emergency on his first day in office, citing the border crisis. Doing so will enable him to utilize the military to secure the border and begin a deportation process that first prioritizes removing violent criminal foreign nationals who are in the U.S. illegally. The next priority is removing those illegally in the country with deportation orders. Combined, they total several million, The Center Square has reported. A majority of Americans polled support the plan, The Center Square reported.

“The moment that President Trump puts his hand on that Bible and takes the oath of office, as he has said, the occupation ends and liberation day begins,” Stephen Miller, who’s been named deputy chief of staff for policy in Trump’s new administration, told Fox News. “He will immediately sign executive orders sealing the border shut, beginning the largest deportation operation in American history.”

Trump’s border czar Tom Homan has said deporting violent criminals is his top priority. He’s said he plans to do this by coordinating with multiple federal agencies to remove criminal foreign nationals in the country illegally, followed by those with deportation orders and local jail detainer requests. Part of his plan also involves identifying those on the FBI’s Terrorist Watchlist who were reportedly released into the country by the Biden-Harris administration, as well as those with local jail detainer requests and imposing consequences for local jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate.

In an effort to aid the administration, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham offered state property the GLO acquired last month in Starr County. Next week, the state breaks ground building a new section of Texas’ border wall on the property.

Buckingham is offering part of the land to be used for Trump’s deportation plan, more than 1,400 acres, to construct deportation facilities and staging areas.

The GLO is “prepared to enter into an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or the United States Border Patrol to allow facility to be built for the processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation’s history,” Buckingham wrote Trump.

“As Texas Land Commissioner and steward of over 13 million acres, it’s been my promise to all Texans since assuming my role at the GLO to use every tool at my disposal to gain complete operational control of our southern border,” Buckingham said in a statement. “This is why I am offering President-elect Trump over 1,400 acres of state land on the southern border to aid his administration in carrying out their deportation plans to place the safety and well-being of all Americans first and foremost.”

Buckingham has also taken other actions to help Texas secure the border.

Last June, the GLO declared 170 acres on Fronton Island in the Rio Grande Valley and 45 acres of two islands south of Eagle Pass as state property allowing Operation Lone Star officers to clear what was previously used as a staging area by cartel operatives, The Center Square reported.

In far west Texas, the GLO also purchased the largest privately owned ranch in Texas, which spans more than 350,000 acres and 552-square-miles, for border security and conservation efforts, The Center Square reported.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has praised Trump’s plan, also arguing that Texas should be able to remove illegal foreign nationals through a bill the state legislature passed that he signed into law, SB 4. The Biden administration sued to stop it. The case is currently before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Texas is also daily expanding Abbott’s border security efforts, including continuing to build Texas’ border wall on state land and putting in place marine and concertina wire barriers. The Biden administration also sued to stop these efforts, and Texas continued to build them. Those cases are also before the Fifth Circuit.

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Canada Pivots From ‘Diversity Is Our Strength,’ Locks Down Border Fearing Migrant Influx

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By Jason Hopkins

Canadian officials are bracing for a possible migrant influx into their country because of President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory in the U.S., marking a major pivot in policy compared to Trump’s first White House term.

Canada’s Liberal Party-led government appears to be taking a much more hawkish approach to illegal immigration and the possibility of a surge in asylum seekers, according to the New York Times. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) — the country’s law enforcement arm that patrols the border — is preparing to beef up its immigration enforcement capabilities by hiring more staff, adding more vehicles and creating more processing facilities.

RCMP would use the extra vehicles to help patrol the U.S.-Canada border and utilize newly-established facilities to detain and process arriving migrants, according to the New York Times.

The preparations up north come as Trump — who just won election to a second, non-consecutive term to the White House — has vowed to conduct the largest deportation operation in the country’s history. He is set to re-occupy the Oval Office in January, where he will get to work on his hardline immigration enforcement agenda.

Canadian officials have spoken about the possibility of a migrant surge into their country early on since Trump’s victory.

“We started planning because we knew that there were a lot of people in the United States who will fear to be deported, and if that happens, they won’t wait for the Trump administration to seize power, it’s more likely that they will attempt to cross into Canada from now in the next few weeks until he takes on power,” RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Charles Poirier said on CTV News earlier in November.

Trudeau’s government did not have the same response to Trump’s first-term crackdown on illegal migrants.

“To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada,” the Canadian prime minister posted on social media on Jan. 28, 2017, just days after Trump was sworn into office.

However, in the years since Trudeau made these public overtures, the Canadian government has recognized the need to change course. The change in policy is largely reflective of less tolerance in the country for mass migration, public opinion surveys have shown.

“To be clear: all newcomers are valued in Canada,” Marc Miller, Canada’s immigration minister, said during a September speech in Ottawa before announcing the rollout of immigration enforcement measures. “But we also need to recognize that this can impact communities, such as the increases in unemployment amongst youth and newcomers.”

“We are introducing changes to further recalibrate international student, foreign worker and permanent resident volumes. That work has already started,” Miller continued.

In addition to beefing up its border infrastructure, Canadian officials also plan to make use out of an international agreement that will allow them to send asylum seekers back into the U.S., according to the New York Times. The “safe third country” agreement — which the Trump administration heavily enforced onto Mexico at that time — designates both the U.S. and Canada as safe countries for asylum requestors, meaning a migrant that arrived in the U.S. must first seek asylum there before attempting to do so in Canada.

“We expect that agreement to continue to be fully enforced,” Miller told reporters earlier.

The RCMP did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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